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Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

Retrospective Screening

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

Screening as part of Budd Boetticher: The Ranown Cycle. EIFF presents six compact and beautiful films directed by Budd Boetticher, which present the apotheosis of the Western genre and all star classic Hollywood golden age movie icon Randolph Scott. Presented...

Retrospective Screening
Budd Boetticher
1958
1hr 20 mins
15+

Bridging the Gap Shorts

World Premiere

Bridging the Gap Shorts

EIFF is delighted to partner with Scottish Documentary Institute to present the short documentary films created through the Bridging the Gap training programme. Inner forces and outside influences shape this collection of short documentaries which take us into intimate, poetic...

World Premiere
Various
2025
1hr 15 mins
15+

Brides

UK Premiere

Brides

Two disillusioned 15-year-old girls, Doe and Muna, make a pact to leave their troubled lives in the UK to embark on a life-changing journey to the Syrian border, after being influenced by propaganda on social media. Though danger and uncertainty...

UK Premiere
Nadia Fall
2025
1hr 35 mins
15+

Best Boy

World Premiere

Best Boy

Three adult children and their mother reunite after the death of their abusive father, engaging in a strange, cruel competition that shaped their childhood. As the games play out, hidden truths emerge, relationships crumble and violence ensues. Sharply scripted and...

World Premiere
Jesse Noah Klein
2024
1hr 35 mins
15+

Animation Shorts

UK Premiere, World Premiere

Animation Shorts

Explore the infinite possibilities of animation with this global tour of a medium being used to tell a stunning variety of inventive, expressive, entirely unique tales.This collection of shorts includes everything from a daring lunar adventure, to a family-friendly parable...

UK Premiere, World Premiere
Various
2023, 2024, 2025
1hr 30 mins
18+

All The Devils Are Here

World Premiere

All The Devils Are Here

A taut psychological crime thriller where guilt festers, loyalties shift, and the codes that bind men begin to break. When a group of London criminals retreat to a rural hideout, it’s meant to be a brief stay. But as days...

World Premiere
Barnaby Roper
2025
1hr 30 mins
15+

About A Hero

UK Premiere

About A Hero

An AI version of Werner Herzog narrates a crime mystery generated by AI in an absurd, deep fake universe. When small town factory worker Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, Herzog travels to Germany to investigate, yet nothing is as...

UK Premiere
Piotr Winiewicz
2024
1hr 25 mins
PG

90 Minutes or Less Podcast (Live)

Special Event

90 Minutes or Less Podcast (Live)

We are thrilled to host a live podcast hosted by Sam Clements, with special guest acclaimed comedian Rose Matafeo, star of Starstruck, Baby Done and Junior Taskmaster. 90 Minutes or Less is Sam’s acclaimed podcast where he discusses a short,...

Special Event
1hr mins
18+

Competition Shorts

World Premiere

Competition Shorts

A selection of the finest new short films from across the world, ranging from biting realism to surreal satire. Board games, Thanksgiving dinners and a dictator’s dog all play a part in this year’s short film competition, which explores the...

World Premiere
Various
2025
2hr 25 mins
15+

Concessions

World Premiere

Concessions

This gorgeously filmed US comedy brings an appealing vitality and soul to its story of a rundown cinema on the day of closure and the various intersecting lives of its staff and customers. Propelled by a witty and weirdly lyrical...

World Premiere
Mas Bouzidi
2025
1hr 31 mins

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Growing Down (Minden Rendben)

A gripping and taut drama exploring moral conflict and family loyalty from Hungarian writer-director Bálint Dániel Sós, shot in striking black and white. When...

Bálint Dániel Sós
2025
1hr 25 mins

In Transit

An enigmatic painter (Ehle) invites a young bartender to pose for her as a strange, confusing relationship develops that will change both women forever....

Jaclyn Bethany
2025
1hr 25 mins

Once You Shall Be One Of Those Who Lived Long Ago

An affecting, gorgeously crafted documentary about the remaining people in Malmberget in north Sweden, a small town slowly collapsing into the mines beneath it....

Alexander Rynéus & Per Bifrost
2025
1hr 35 mins